Adam and Eve were actually black and white. It was only after the apple episode that the world became color. If mankind was to live in sin, it might as well do it with a little style. Colors did not have names until an Egyptian slave, Ptolemy Pturner, wrote an ode to King Tut and needed a word to rhyme with “you.” During the Dark Ages bright colors were banned by the Church, which led to underground trading of color swatches wrapped in plain brown paper.

Galileo tried to measure the speed of light by dropping both a small and a large candle from the leaning Tower of Pisa. The result was a waxy buildup. Later Newton discovered that light caused color or that light was color when a candelabra fell on his head. What he was doing under Liberace’s piano is not known. Color radio was introduced in the Twenties but did not catch on until someone thought to use a video screen.

You cannot see color with your eyes closed or in the dark. In fact you can’t see anything. There is only the memory of color, like grass or sky. Color is the perception or reflection of light. If there is no light, there is no color. Color is really what you think it is. They have discovered the part of the brain that perceives color. It’s the crayola cortex of the cerebellum.